The authors have been avid readers and regular contributors to the SDC journals over a number of decades. Despite this allegiance, they question whether the large volume of useful technology that has been published was adequately read and implemented. Much more information has been published than can ever be used. Wider exploitation of the literature could have avoided or alleviated many of the problems currently suffered by various sectors of the coloration industry. A number of authors over the decades have questioned the resources devoted to education.
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